Spur of Fame: Dialogues of John Adams & Benjamin Rush, 1805-1813

Spur of Fame: Dialogues of John Adams & Benjamin Rush, 1805-1813
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Liberty Fund Inc
Country
United States
Published
16 March 2001
Pages
325
ISBN
9780865972865

Spur of Fame: Dialogues of John Adams & Benjamin Rush, 1805-1813

John Adams and Benjamin Rush were two remarkably different men who shared a devotion to liberty. Their dialogues on the implications of fame for their generation prove remarkably timely – even for the twenty-first century. Adams and Rush championed very different views on the nature of the American Revolution and of the republic established with the United States Constitution; yet they shared one of the most important correspondences of their time. Their recurring subject was fame. This emphasis on fame was crucial, Adams and Rush believed, because on the fame attached to individual leaders of the Revolutionary generation would depend the view of the Revolution and of the Constitution and republican government that would be embraced by generations to come, including our own.

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